I looked up supervising producer E. Duke Vincent and to my shocked he died almost three months ago in February 2024 and I started watching Life With Lucy last month which is just two months after his death.
Maybe not so great back then..cause tv was so good....but in 2022.. this is good!! ...comforting like the british sitcoms...lucy you were so ahead you went back..then ahead ..rip
@@stevenogle2661Maybe if the creators were Mark Egan and Mark Solomon instead along with Larry Gelbart? And it should've been produced by Paramount Television. My idea of composer? Tom Scott.
Not-so-fun fact: The guy playing Lucy's son in law was a former magician's assistant who spent 33 years in the Church of Scientology- 13 years as a spokesman in promo films- before quitting in 2010 and sueing for $100,000 for 'unpaid services'. IDK if he got it, but his showbiz career seems to have sunk.
@@fjccommish Plus, he was way too young to be Gale's son. Cast on eye-candy looks for the 'Women 18-49' demo, I guess. Blame Cosby for reviving the sentimental and sententious 'learning and growing' strain in domestic sitcom. See the soppy end of this episode, with its 'we're never too old or too young to teach each other life lessons' message. This kind of thing would curdle into the more overtly preachy wokecom. Ironic, considering what we know now about 'America's dad'. Go back to the great trio of early sitcom: Lucy, Gleason and Phil Silvers. They didn't slip sermons to the audience. Too busy keeping the laughs coming at warp velocity.
I met Jenny after a Rilo Kiley show (she was the lead singer), 2007. Had no idea she’d been a child actress. She was signing autographs & chatting with fans. Some guy asked what it was like working with the legendary Lucille Ball, to which Lewis replied, "she treated me like her own granddaughter!”
This was not a good episode, way too many references to Lucy's past sitcoms: Lil Ricky learning to play the drums & Lucy Ricardo playing the saxophone from I Love Lucy.. Also, Lucy getting her ring stuck or caught onto something is from The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
@@lax1194 The one where Lucy pretended to be a chair was original to that show. The Three Stooges did it just a short while later. rick nineg did a video about it here on YT. Who knows where the idea came from, but he digs into the dates the scenes were filmed & when they were seen by the public.
In my opinion, this show was doomed from the beginning, because she was trying too hard to make lightning strike twice. It was the 80's, so what had worked for her in the 50's/60's, was rather outdated by this time. I give her credit for trying another series, but it wasn't the same with Desi. I think she would've had a far longer (and richer) acting career doing a dramatic series or more movie roles (like "Yours, Mine and Ours" from 1968), rather than looking a fool like this and getting abysmal ratings. Gary Morton was a solid man for her, but he wasn't Desi: she never got the happiness in the end that she gave everyone else. I think most people knew what a horrible turkey this show was, but feigned ignorance out of their love for her from 30 years prior. The show was awful, with the same formula and physical comedy. She should've stopped while she was ahead.
